A 16" fretboard radius block works great for putting a gentle radius on my back strips. I run masking tape down both outside edges of the block, protecting the back from the abrasive. When the edges of the block touch the back I'm done.

I knew I held on to all of these old baseball cards for a reason - protecting the back reinforcing strip while shaping the back braces.

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And here is an image from the evening I finally presented, literally, the finished Ziricote 00-12 to its final owner.

This was at a design retreat we do annually. I spent some time speaking about and demonstrating tap tones of tonewoods, their characteristics and how they can be combined for different tonal effect before suggesting that its easier to understand in a completed instrument. I then presented the finished guitar and invited a number of friends from the audience to demo it for the group.

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